West not East.

As long as she has free land Canada will be free of labor unrest, but
the dangers of industrialism menace her in a transfer of population
from farm to factory.

In twenty years Canada will have as many British born within her
borders as there were Englishmen in England in the days of Queen
Elizabeth.

In twenty years Canada will have more foreign-born than there are
native-born Canadians.

Her pressing problems to-day are the amalgamation of the foreigner
through her schools; a working arrangement with the Oriental fair to
him as to her; the development of her natural resources; the anchoring
of the people to the land; and the building of a system of powerful
national defense by sea and land.

Her constitution is elastic and pliable to every new emergency--it may
be, too pliable; and her system of justice stands high.

She has a fanatical patriotism; but it is not yet vocal in art, or
literature; and it is--do not mistake it--loyalty to an ideal, not to a
dynasty, nor to a country. She loves Britain because Britain stands
for that ideal.

Stand back from all these facts! They may be slow-moving ponderous
facts. They may be contradictory and inconsistent. What that moves
ever is consistent? But like a fleet tacking to sea, though the course
shift and veer, it is ever forward. Forward whither--do you ask of
Canada?

There is no man with an open free mind can ponder these facts and not
answer forthwith and without faltering--_to a democratised edition of a
Greater Britain Overseas_. Only a world cataclysm or national upheaval
displacing every nation from its foundations can shake Canada from that
destiny.

Will she grow closer to Britain or farther off? Will she grow closer
to the United States or farther off? Will she fight Japan or league
with her? Will she rig up a working arrangement with the Hindu?

Every one of these questions is aside from the main fact--England will
not interfere with her destiny. The United States will not interfere
with her destiny. Canada has her destiny in her own hands, and what
she works out both England and the United States will bless; but with
as many British born in her boundaries anchored to freehold of land as
made England great in the days of Queen Elizabeth, unless history
reverse itself and fate make of facts dice tossed to ruin by malignant
furies, then Canada's destiny can be only one--a Greater Britain
Overseas.

THE END